1922 New Hampshire football team

The 1922 New Hampshire football team[a] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[b] during the 1922 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. In its seventh season under head coach William "Butch" Cowell,[c] the team compiled a 3–5–1 record, and were outscored by their opponents by a total of 180 to 105. After opening the season with three wins, the team had a five-game losing streak before ending the season with a tie. The team played its home games in Durham, New Hampshire, at Memorial Field.[d]

1922 New Hampshire football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5–1
Head coach
CaptainEarl P. Farmer[1]
Home stadiumMemorial Field
Seasons
← 1921
1923 →
1922 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     8 0 0
Princeton     8 0 0
Army     8 0 2
Syracuse     6 1 2
Franklin & Marshall     8 2 0
Pittsburgh     8 2 0
Holy Cross     7 2 1
Harvard     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 0
Springfield     6 2 0
Boston College     6 2 1
Brown     6 2 1
Colgate     6 3 0
Dartmouth     6 3 0
Penn     6 3 0
Vermont     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Yale     6 3 1
Bucknell     7 4 0
Penn State     6 4 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Villanova     5 3 1
Columbia     5 4 0
Rutgers     5 4 0
Tufts     5 4 0
Rhode Island State     4 4 0
NYU     4 5 0
Fordham     3 5 2
Geneva     4 6 0
Boston University     2 4 3
Lehigh     3 5 1
New Hampshire     3 5 1
Drexel     2 4 0
Temple     1 4 1
Buffalo     1 5 0
CCNY     1 6 0
Duquesne     0 8 0
Team captain Earl P. Farmer c. 1919, in the annual college yearbook

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23 USMC Portsmouth
W 40–0 [4]
September 30 Bates
  • Memorial Field
  • Durham, NH
W 21–72,000 [5]
October 7 Norwich
  • Memorial Field
  • Durham, NH
W 7–0 [6]
October 14 at Cornell L 7–68 [7]
October 21 at Army L 0–33 [8]
October 28 at Massachusetts L 10–12
November 4 Vermont 
  • Memorial Field
  • Durham, NH
L 0–335,000 [9]
November 11 vs. Maine L 7–14
November 18 Boston University
  • Memorial Field
  • Durham, NH
T 13–13 [10]

The USMC Portsmouth team was composed of Marine Corps personnel working at the Portsmouth Naval Prison in nearby Kittery, Maine.[4] While contemporary news reports and The Granite yearbook described it as a "practice game",[1][4] the result is listed by College Football Data Warehouse and the Wildcats' media guide.[12]

The 1922 game remains the only time that the New Hampshire and Cornell football programs have met.[13] New Hampshire and Massachusetts (commonly known as UMass since the late 1940s) next met in 1952.[14] New Hampshire and Army next met in 2008.[15]

Notes

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  1. ^ The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926;[2] before then, they were generally referred to as "the blue and white".
  2. ^ The school was often referred to as New Hampshire College or New Hampshire State College in newspapers of the era.
  3. ^ This was Cowell's 8th year and 7th season as head coach, as the school did not field a varsity team in 1918 due to World War I.
  4. ^ Memorial Field remains in use by the New Hampshire women's field hockey team.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c The Granite. Durham, New Hampshire: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 1924. pp. 285–293. Archived from the original on February 15, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  2. ^ "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "Memorial Field Then". unh.edu. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Marines Playing State College This Afternoon". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. September 23, 1922. p. 8. Retrieved February 15, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "New Hampshire Takes Bates' Measure, 21-7". The Boston Globe. October 1, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Norwich Eleven Loses to New Hampshire, 7-0". Rutland Daily Herald. Rutland, Vermont. October 9, 1922. p. 6. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "New Hampshire State No Match for Cornell". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 15, 1922. p. 23. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Army Vanquishes The New Hampshire State Eleven, 33-0". New-York Tribune. October 22, 1922. p. 17. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Vermont Rolls Over New Hampshire, 33-0". The Boston Globe. November 5, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved February 15, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Boston University Tied Near Finish". The Boston Globe. November 19, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  12. ^ "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  13. ^ "New Hampshire vs Cornell (NY)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  14. ^ "New Hampshire vs Massachusetts". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  15. ^ "New Hampshire vs Army (NY)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.